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50 years after Argentina’s bloody coup, families still search for and bury the disappeared

Nearly 50 years after Argentina’s 1976 coup that led to a repressive dictatorship, families are still searching for and burying the disappeared.

 

Southern right whales awe admirers in Patagonia after coming back from brink of extinction

Southern right whales are swimming in greater numbers off the coast of Argentina’s Patagonia this year. The whales have come back from the brink of extinction.

 

Brazil’s poor are squeezed as inequality grows

A new study by the Getulio Vargas Foundation finds that the key measure of income inequality has reached its highest level since the series began seven years ago, with Brazil among the most unequal nations in a broader region where the gap between rich and poor is notorious.